Motivational Quotes

Experience

A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.

Chesterfield, Lord

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Butler, Samuel

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

Benjamin, Walter

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Marx, Karl

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

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I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Ford, Gerald R.

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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

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If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Van Buren, Abigail

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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Eliot, George

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Benson, Ezra Taft

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You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world

Siegel, Bernie S.

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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

LeMond, Greg

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

Bellin, Gita

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

Woodman, Cousin

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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Trump, Donald

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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Proverb, Persian

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Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Tracy, Brian

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Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

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If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

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Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Kafka, Franz

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Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Twain, Mark

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Pascal, Blaise

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Campbell, Joseph

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I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

Buddha

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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

Reagan, Ronald